Two of the staff competitors, Kynan Singh and Kyle Cuckson, are fitness instructors at the College’s on-site gym and wanted to be leading examples to their members and students by showing what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.

The staff used the on-site college facilities, Kingsway Fitness Suite, to train for the event and to get to their full potential, which involved long distance running, bleep tests, running on the treadmill with a body bag that weighed 20kg, body weight training including push ups, pull ups and sit ups.

Duty officer, of Kingsway Fitness Suite, Kyle Cuckson, said: “I wanted to complete the last Tough Guy competition and pay tribute to Mr Mouse who was the founder of Tough Guy. I completed the course in 2012, but this year it was much harder with 7,000 people competing.”

Kingsway Fitness Suite Manager) Alan Rayment, said: “This was a great achievement by all that competed. The January ‘Tough Guy’ is the hardest in the world and I am proud that two of our fitness instructors had participated; it shows that the team at Kingsway Fitness Suite are willing to do these events and it gives them further knowledge, understanding and experience.”